Hello everyone! It is time for the monthly calendar suggestions! The mods have been discussing how to improve our calendar. Be sure to comment below telling us which threads are your favorite and which threads you would like to see for November.

Simple Questions Wednesday and Sunday are permanent features.

Would you be interested in a weekly lust list/haul thread? Monthly?

A monthly favorites will also be a permanent feature.

Have any ideas for permanent threads? Let us know here! We are open to suggestions!

Be sure to upvote the suggestions you agree with! The suggestions with the most votes will be added into the rotation.

-Pale Girl Products Thread. Because there's posts all the time like 'I'm really pale and just getting into makeup, nothing works for me, what do I use as a highlighter, what color eyeshadows, etc.' Then turn the best responses into a sidebar guide.

-Similarly, a thread for helping women of color with the specific makeup challenges they face!

-Hooded Eye Thread! All about hooded eyes, people can link tutorials and videos, share tips, etc.

I mentioned this in another thread and was told to put it here. I reeeeeally want us to start doing a thread at the end of the month highlighting that months newly released products. It's hard to keep track of everything that's being released if you're not always looking in stores or online. People can just list new products that they've seen released and people can respond by posting their own little reviews underneathe. I would love to be able to stay on top on all of the new products, especially if they're limited edition and going to eventually run out!

How about something where a person posts a picture of their regular makeup (either for everyday, going out, or whatever) and someone else either finds a picture of makeup that they think would suit them or makes suggestions and the first person then replicates it/does a look inspired by it and posts?

I am very guilty of sticking to certain colors too. In my Naked palette, I rely on the same like four colors and a lot of them go super neglected (luckily in my new Lorac Unzipped palette all of the colors suit me nicely!). Maybe a thread prompting people to build an eyeshadow look using the colors they don't normally use in a palette could be cool.

To add on to the makeup challenges, in November, Catching Fire comes out. Normally I'd think that movies don't warrant makeup challenges but considering that CG partnered with the HG franchise AND has the Capital, which is full of crazy and fun fashions and looks, I think it would be a great challenge! Maybe have a week or at least a few days where we focus on some of the districts with the last day (maybe release day?) being Capitol day!

I like the first date makeup idea. I've been watching a few of those videos on Youtube and they've all said to get very natural and I'm thinking 'Nup, when I'm ready to date again its red lips all the way.' Would be interesting to see what other people here would do

I think for the first date, people should see your real personality, which sort of includes your makeup styles. So I agree, unless you do natural makeup all the time, you shouldn't force yourself to do that just because of a first date.

I really love the idea of makeup for different "events"....we could do job interview makeup, watching football with the guys makeup, etc! I loved your ideas too - especially first date and meeting the parents.

I posted this before on another thread but I'd like to voice it here again:

I suggest a weekly makeup contest.

We could start a thread on Sunday Night and go until following Saturday night with a winner being decided upon by user voting.

The winner of the previous week would choose the theme for the week. It can be anything from "Under the Sea" to "Fairies" to "Monochrome" which will leave a lot of room creatively for everyone to do their own thing. It will give a lot of us a chance to use colors that we normally don't, and even better, to see how other artists interpreted the theme.

All the fine print can be worked out if there's enough interest! We can do something fun at the end of the year, like creating a banner with all the winning pictures.

If this is something everyone is excited about, I'd like to nominate "Monochromatic" at the first theme. Do whatever you like on your face, just use the same color(s) all over!

EDIT Since I work at Ulta and get a good discount, I'll offer a small prize for the winner! Something like a lip liner or an individual eye shadow or a beauty tool or a primer or a lipgloss or an eyeliner.

I'd love to try a challenge where you do the same face with your lowest end and then highest end makeup, and take a photo in the morning and at night, to see how they hold up. You could do low end one day and high end the other, and then compare!

Going off from this, do we have anything where people post a list of products they're lusting after, and others who have those items can comment with reviews/whether it's worth it/etc? If it's not a planned thing, maybe it could become so - especially leading up to the holidays.

That can probably be done in a lust thread. You know, I say I want this and that, and you swoop in and tell me that this sucks and not worth your money, but that - that is amazing and you should get two?

See what I mean? :p There's nothing stopping us from starting a duscussion in such a thread.

What if we did makeup to compliment hair colors? Like eye makeup for redheads, etc. I know that we mostly use skin/eye colors to choose our looks, but hair color can definitely make or break a look too!